Tricia Leigh Fisher

After acting in various films in the 1980s, the daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher turned her attention to singing with this self-titled debut album. The actress/singer's focus is bubble-gum pop-rock and equally lightweight dance-pop, and the overall results could be described as early Debbie Gibson and Tiffany by way of Paula Abdul. Girlish female singers with wafer-thin voices were quite the rage in dance-pop at the time; so Fisher, who doesn't have much of a voice, fit right in. Fisher had a rather intoxicating single in "Empty Beach," but for the most part, this CD (which came out when she was in her early 20s) is quite disposable. There's nothing wrong with commercial music if it's done with some soul and some creativity -- contrary to what many rock critics believe, not every artist who comes along has to be U2, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen or the Jesus and Mary Chain. But at the same time, tunes like "Trapped By Love" and "Back in Love Again" don't have to be as vapid, as toothless and as bland as they are. Thankfully, the L.A. native didn't go on to record a lot of equally generic albums in the 1990s. When 1999 rolled around, Fisher had yet to record a second album. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide